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United States Patent BALER William J. Dwyer, Battle Creek, Mich., assiguor to J. I.

Case Company, Racine, Wis., a corporation of Wiscousin Application January 13, 1950, Serial No. 138,507

31 Claims. (Cl. 100-4) The present invention relates generally to balers and more particularly to an improved baler for agricultural use, which includes means for automatically tying the baled material with wire.

The baling of crop materials may be accomplished either in the field with a pick-up baler which is operable to gather a windrowed crop and to form it into bales or at a central location with a stationary baler, the material to be baled being hauled to the stationary baler for the baling operation. In conventional balers of either the stationary or the pick-up type, the material being baled is fed into an elongated chamber in which a reciprocable baling piston is disposed. The baling piston is driven from a suitable source of power, and during the operation of the baler, the piston compresses the hay or other material being baled and forces that material longitudinally of the chamber to a discharge opening. The baling chamber is, in effect, continued beyond the discharge Opening by a skeletonized frame or bale case which is preferably constructed in such manner that the cross-sectional area thereof may be varied to change the amount of force required to move the compressed material therethrough, thereby providing means for controlling the density of the compressed material. The compressed material in the baling chamber and in the bale case is in the form of a continuous column or strip which is divided into units of the desired lengths to form bales before the compressed material passes outof the discharge end of the bale case. After the compressed material is divided into bales, but before the material is discharged from the bale case, one or more ties are placed around each bale to bind it together so that the shape of each bale will beretained as it passes out of the bale case. The bale ties may be applied by automatic mechanism or by hand.

Both wire and twine have been used for bale ties, although wire is more satisfactory because twine often breaks when subject to the mechanical strains incident to handling the bales, or becomes so weakened due to deterioration under storage conditions that the compressed material itself bursts the ties. Despite these disadvantages, twine is used in most commercially available automatic tying mechanisms chiefly because twine is highly flexible, and this simplifies greatly the construction of automatic bale tying mechanism. In fact, due to the complexity and high initial and maintenance cost of known apparatus for tying or twisting stiff wires, economic considerations have required that wire baling ties be tied or twisted manually. Manual tying with wire is, however, quite expensive, and as a result, there is a great need in the art for a relatively simple and reliable automatic mechanism for applying wire ties to bales of crop materials.

This problem of properly tying bales is particularly critical in the case of baling mechanisms which compress the crop material in separable layers. In baling mechanisms of this character, the baling piston or plunger is provided with a cutter knife or cutter knives which ice sever the material compressed on each stroke of the piston from the uncompressed material being fed into the baling cha'mber. Since this results in but a superficial interconnection between the layers of material compressed on successive strokes of the piston, the finished bale must be held under a substantial compressive force by the ties if the bale is to maintain its shape. Further, in a pick-up baler the bales are usually dropped onto the ground from a height of several feed incident to the operation of the baler, and as a consequence, unless the bales are securely tied, the resulting shock often breaks the bale ties.

Accordingly, the principal object of the invention is the provision of an improved baler which will overcome the deficiences of the prior art devices. A further object of the invention is the provision of an improved pick-up baler which forms the baled material into separable, compressed sections and which is operable to tie these sections with wire in a manner such that the bales will withstand the stresses incident to handling and storing the bale. More specific objects of the invention are the provision of improved means for feeding one or more continuous wires around a bale, the provision of improved means for interconnecting the wires to. form bale ties, the provision of improved means for cutting the wires after the bale tie is formed, and the provision of means for driving and synchronizing the foregoing elements to effect smooth and rapid tying. Other objects and advantages of the invention will become known by reference to the following description and the accompanying drawings of one preferred embodiment thereof.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a baler embodying various features of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary, perspective view showing the forward end of the baler illustrated in Fig. I, particularly illustrating the arrangement of the timing and synchronizing mechanism which constitutes an important part of the illustrated apparatus;

Fig. 2a is a sectional view taken on line '2a2a in Fig. 2;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary, elevational view, partially in section, showing particular features of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4--4 in Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 5-5 in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary, plan view of the means employed for carrying a continuous wire around the bale;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary, perspective view showing means for feeding the continuous wire to the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 6; V 1

Fig. 8 is a sectional-view taken on line 8-8 in Fig. 6;

Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 9-9 in Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is an end'view of the needle which comprises a part of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 6;

Fig. 11 is a perspective view of the bale case which constitutes a part of the baler illustrated in Fig. 1. This view particularly illustrates the means employed for supporting the tying mechanism on the bale case;

Fig. 12 is a perspective view showing improved mechanisms for tying the baling wires and'for holding and cutting wires;

Fig. 13' is a fragmentary, elevational view of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 12;

Fig. 14 is a sectional view taken on line 141-14 in Fig. 13;

Fig. 15 is a sectional view taken on line 15-15 in Fig; 13;

' Fig. 16 is a sectional view illustrating the driving means for the wire holding and clamping unit illustrated in Figs. 13 and 15; 

